欧洲最高法院星期一做出对一名奥地利学生有利的裁决。该学生抱怨说，跨大西洋数据保护协议没有对美国社交媒体网络脸书（Facebook）使用者的隐私提供足够保护，
欧洲最高法院说，脸书在欧洲的运作中心爱尔兰的隐私权监管机构必须决定是否应当暂停将信息从欧洲传送到美国。
跨大西洋数据保护协议、既所谓的安全港协议已经实施了15年。这个协议允许美国公司在不违反欧洲隐私法的条件在美国和欧洲进行数据交换。美国四千多家公司都依照这个协议来处理跨大西洋业务。
美国国家安全局前合同工斯诺登两年前披露美国对欧洲和其他非美国公民进行非法监查。在那之后，高科技涉及的隐私一直在欧洲和美国受到关注。
The highest court in Europe has ruled in favor of an Austrian student who complained that a trans-Atlantic data protection agreement does not do enough to shield the privacy of users of the U.S.-based social media network Facebook.
The court said privacy regulators in Ireland, where Facebook's European operation is based, must now decide whether the network's transfers of information from Europe to the United States should be suspended.
The Safe Harbour agreement has been in effect for 15 years, developed as a way to allow U.S. firms to exchange data with Europe without violating European privacy laws. More than 4,000 U.S. firms use the provisions in dealing with their trans-Atlantic business.
Technological privacy has been in the spotlight in both Europe and the United States since information surfaced two years ago through U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden that the United States had been spying illegally on Europeans and other non-U.S. citizens.
